Getting into RedHat (yet another subject change)

Nikhil Sinha sinhanikhil.5 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 14 03:08:32 UTC 2011


Ok. 

Nikhil.
------Original Message------
From: Cameron Simpson
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Cc: Nikhil Sinha
Subject: Re: Getting into RedHat (yet another subject change)
Sent: 14 Jul 2011 02:41

On 13Jul2011 10:58, Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:
| On 07/13/2011 10:33 AM, Nikhil Sinha wrote:
| > I am trying to get into Redhat, to work with, in fact to start with. Is this wrong place to post?
| 
| Ok, we have issues here, which is precisely why you do NOT reply to a
| message digest.  I mistook your reply to the digest as an errant reply
| to another thread regarding one person's attempt to remove a driver from
| their kernel.  Ok, that's on my head.
| 
| You were trying to start a new thread that had nothing to do with the
| digest.  To start a new thread, you must write a NEW message with an
| appropriate subject line and send it to
| 
| 	redhat-install-list at redhat.com
| 
| You should NOT have replied to an existing message or thread.  That
| breaks the threading nature of messages.  New messages start threads
| (a thread being a series of messages related to a specific subject),
| replies add to existing threads.  This is true for any mailing list and
| not just this one.  Hope that's clear.

Also, replies to message digests almost always have a totally useless
subject line.

| Now as to is this the right place?  The purpose of this list is
| primarily to help people get RedHat and its derivatives (such as
| CentOS) installed and working on their machines properly.  It's not
| really meant to be a general Linux beginner's "How do I do this?"
| thing.  There are probably better lists for that.

But it is a sutiable place for beginnger install questions. The list
even has the title "Getting started with Red Hat Linux".

However, Vikas' post wasn't about installs. It was a resume post seeking
a job. It really is off topic. Perhaps this can be attributed to
avgueness in the "getting started" term. For this list it is to do with
getting started installing and running RedHat linux, not getting started
in a careers or job.

Cheers,
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